“They have acted with the utmost professionalism and speed to return our beautiful daughter Jastine to us.

“We also wish to acknowledge the support and sympathy of our ­family, friends, and the people of The Philippines, Outreach Ireland, and both the Philippine and Irish Department of Foreign Affairs for their help and support.

“Finally, we wish to thank the wonderful help and support given by Mark ­Congdon, Consul for The Philippines, for all he has done to support us at this traumatic time.”

The statement ends with the word “salamat” — meaning “thank you”.

They were brought to the funeral home by a garda and were greeted by Superintendent John Gordon when they arrived.

Wearing a navy shirt and black trousers with a black bag over his shoulder, Danilo looked visibly shaken as he prepared to go in to see his daughter. His distraught wife Teresita, dressed in black, was helped from the car and in the door by a family friend.

“Will be sadly missed and remembered with love by her parents, grandmother Marcelina, grandfather Felepipe, aunts, uncles, extended family and many close friends in Ireland and The Philippines.” Jastine’s Irish and Filipino pals held a vigil for her during the week and are expected to hold a memorial mass in the coming days.

By last night, a memorial fund set up by the Filipino community in Ireland for her family had raised more than €128,000 since it was launched last Tuesday.

Meanwhile, killer Hennessy’s remains are understood to be at a funeral home in Sallynoggin, Dublin, where family members have been to see him in recent days.

It’s expected that the married father-of-two will be buried in a quiet ceremony over the weekend.

Relatives gathered at his family home in Ballybrack, Dublin, yesterday but they declined to speak to the Irish Sun. It emerged on Thursday night that Hennessy was caught on Dublin Bus CCTV driving towards Jastine before abducting her in Enniskerry.

Footage shows him travelling in his Nissan Qashqai SUV right behind the bus from which innocent Jastine had just disembarked.

It is understood gardai examined the footage as part of the initial probe into the Filipina’s abduction.

Gardai launched a search last Saturday after Jastine was reported missing at about 11.30pm.

She got off the bus in Enniskerry where she lived and was walking to her house when she was abducted. A witness, a 12-year-old boy, had reported seeing a woman matching her description being bundled into a car at about 6.15pm.

Another person also told gardai they saw Jastine looking distressed in a Qashqai on that same evening.

Officers launched an immediate missing persons probe and as part of that investigation they approached a jeep in Cherrywood Business Park on Sunday evening.

Hennessy, who lived in Bray but was originally from Ballybrack, was subsequently shot dead by gardai following a confrontation. Cops found a bloodied note in his car which led them to a disused golf course in Rathmichael, Co Dublin.

Jastine’s parents thanked gardai and the emergency services for their ‘utmost professionalism’

Jastine’s body was found nearby at 3.30pm on Monday, hidden in heavy undergrowth. The remains were only around 50 metres from a roadway, but in such dense gorse as to be only noticeable after ­several branches were cut away.

A post-mortem revealed she had died of manual strangulation.

An investigation by the Garda Ombudsman found Hennessy — who was on a drink and drugs binge during the slaying — died from a single gunshot wound to the torso.

They also found injuries on his body consistent with self-harming.

Gardai yesterday continued their appeal for information about ­Jastine’s last movements — and the movements of the Nissan Qashqai over last weekend.